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BCA requires non-landed residential projects to adopt drywall for partitions
BCA requires non-landed residential projects to adopt drywall for partitions
New regulations include standardised staircases, chutes, and doors.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.2%
Expect more good news today.
Chart of the Day: Singapore’s new private homes crashed 63.8% in 3Q
Developers had to sell more from existing projects.
Daily Briefing: Singapore ranks first in smartphone addiction; COE closed mixed in latest tender
And Singapore seals IRB Sevens hosting.
More Singapore bankers dreading bonus cuts this year: report
Over one in five are downbeat on their payouts.
LTA unveils advanced solutions to cut commuters’ taxi waiting time woes
Sensors will be installed in seven taxi stands.
Discover these new-to-Singapore brands that opened stores in the CBD in Q3
Includes brands such as Moleskine and Chabuton.
Skilled talent crunch threatens Singapore’s booming finance sector
The sector won’t survive without talent imports.
SGX stock trading volume tumbled for the 13th straight month in October
Average stock trading value dipped 7%.
LTA mulling new regulations for third-party taxi booking apps
These apps won’t solve peak-hour cab blues.
MND slashes BTO flat supply for 2015 on back of sluggish local demand
Surplus stock is building up.
SIA Engineering’s Q3 profit crashed 40.7% to $42.1m in Q3
Revenue also slipped 3%.
Golden Agri struggles as China operations sink into the red
Its plant may be shut down temporarily.
Singapore to adopt OECD rule against tax evasion
It’s easing up on bank secrecy.
GIC to let go of $120m stake in Malaysia’s Sunway
It’s giving everything away.
Three-year high: Singapore’s October PMI surged to 51.9
The electronics sector is expanding too.
MOM rolls out stricter rules for large worker dormitories
Hefty fines await erring operators.
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